{"product_id":"abandoned-by-jules-verne-paperback","title":"Abandoned, by Jules Verne (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the United States and England, Jules Verne's novel \u003cem\u003eThe Mysterious Island\u003c\/em\u003e was divided into three volumes due to its length (195,000 words). The three volumes were entitled \u003cem\u003eDropped from the Clouds\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eAbandoned\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Secret of the Island. \u003c\/em\u003eThe purported translator, W. H. G. Kingston, was a famous author of boys' adventure and sailing stories who had fallen on hard times in the 1870s due to business failures, and so he hired out to Sampson Low as the translator for these books. However, it is now known that the translator of \u003cem\u003eThe Mysterious Island\u003c\/em\u003e and his other Verne novels was actually his wife, Agnes Kinloch Kingston, who had studied on the continent in her youth. The Kingston translation changes the names of the hero from \"Smith\" to \"Harding\"-\"Smith\" is a very common name in the U.K. and would have been associated, at that time, with the lower classes. In addition many technical passages were abridged or omitted and the anti-imperialist sentiments of the dying Captain Nemo were purged so as not to offend English readers. This became the standard translation for more than a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes not only the original illustrations, but a fascinating new introduction by literary scholar Darrell Schweitzer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wildside Press LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43184572858577,"sku":"9781434452474","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/5981\/5377\/files\/9781434452474_FC.jpg?v=1784076180","url":"https:\/\/startlingstories.us\/products\/abandoned-by-jules-verne-paperback","provider":"Startling Stories","version":"1.0","type":"link"}